Monday, August 1, 2016

Monday Motivation Jacquelynne Steves Maggie's First Dance Block 3

Welcome back to Monday Motivation! I cannot believe we are already on Block 3 for Maggie's First Dance by Jacquelynne Steves. Hope everyone is having as much fun as I am creating these beautiful blocks!

This month, I decided to go along with the color scheme of the pattern as it was written. I am so very pleased that I made that choice. I love the calm colors with the pop of red! I used Katie Jump Rope by Denyse Schmidt for the colors. The sweet grey dots are Zen Chic Modern Backgrounds for Moda

I continued with the thread painting as with Block One and Block Two. These are the Aurifil 50 wt colors that I used for this block. The 50wt is really very nice when thread painting. You can go over areas many times and it remains very flat and also does not clog up the machine or break. Pretty amazing!

Make sure to stop by and visit the other bloggers for this event! Say HELLO and see how they are creating their blocks! Variety is the spice of life :o)

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To enter for your chance to win this prize is easy! Please share your favorite summer memory in a comment!

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Can't wait to get started on the 3rd block! My favorite summer memory is taking my two little boys to the beach-they screamed at first, then wiggled their toes in the wet sand & built a sand castle. They were not ready to go home, finally with a promise to come back, they agreed. Happy memory for ever!

One of my favourite summer memories is a houseboat vacation on the Shuswap Lakes in British Columbia. It was very relaxing! There was a slide into the water off of the upper deck. Each night we would beach the boat and have a campfire.

My favorite summer memories were from a long time ago. The year I graduated high school and all my friends who worked together went to the beach almost every day. It was such a happy carefree time in my life.

My favorite summer memories are from the many summer weekends we spent at my grandparents cabin on the water. The one I remember most is when we visited their neighbors and got to ride their horses. Great fun for a 10 year old!

My favourite summer memory, was when we were staying in a very tiny bach, it was 8 feet by 10 feet, and was Christmas, here in NZ that is summertime, but that year, was a bit cold, so we had soup and toast for our meal that night.This was in about 1974!!!

I really love thread painting details on my projects so I was very interested in your use of thread painting. Wonderful block! Thanks for sharing. Marshaquilterinmotion@gmail.comhttp://quilterinmotion,net

Lots of great summer memories here! My favorite summer was 1983 when I graduated from college in May and married my sweetheart in August! This week, we will celebrate 33 years together. That summer, we also bought our first house and moved in just a week after we married.

Love your "Thread Painting" I am going to give it a go after my sewing room is repaired from the tree falling on it! Sooo for now I just look at everyone's blocks and things and dream and drool! My favorite summer memories are as a kid spending all summer with my grandparents either in Kansas or Arizona I would not trade those for anything! Thank you for sharing Kim

I enjoy seeing your thread painting each month, you do such a great job. My favorite summer memory is laying in the shade of a tree and looking at the beautiful blue sky. That is probably why blue is my favorite color.

My favorite summer memory is spending time with my two grandsons. Watching them grow & marveling how delightful they are to be around. I hope to be living closer to them by next summer. Then I will also have a granddaughter. 😀

I loved spending days at my grandparent's Summer bungalow. There was a main house, and the bungalow, and lots of property in between. All my cousins would come, and we'd play flashlight tag, and have BBQs, and go to the beach, and the lake and canoe, and ride bikes, and just have fun. I also loved camping with my family, and exploring the US. Great block!

My birthday is in the summer, so my favorite memories are of the fun birthday parties I had as a kid. We would play games in the yard and eat cake and ice cream on a kid sized picnic table. Those were the days!

My favorite summer memory was camping with my family as a child. I remember our favorite campground in Tennessee like it was yesterday. My dad and his buddy would sing around the campfire, and always drew a crowd.

My favorite summer memory was when we took our Missionette Girls group on a camp out and for the first time they helped me reach a goal to walk up to the falls where we were staying at Nambe Falls, New Mexico. I have a fear of heights but they talked me through it and I got to see the falls.

I think my favorite summer memory is when my oldest daughter was 18 months and we went to South Dakota to visit my grandparents. I was a wonderful visit and, unfortunately, the last time I got to see my grandmother. I thank the Lord I got to see her then.

Visiting Grandpa and Grandma in Kansas. Grandpa made a huge tent in the backyard using ladders and taros. He even put overstuffed furniture out there for us kids--my sisters, cousins and me. We made hand cranked ice cream and ate big slices of ice cold watermelon and spit the seeds.

Visiting Grandpa and Grandma in Kansas. Grandpa made a huge tent in the backyard using ladders and taros. He even put overstuffed furniture out there for us kids--my sisters, cousins and me. We made hand cranked ice cream and ate big slices of ice cold watermelon and spit the seeds.

My favorite summer memory is going to the beach with my brother. We grew up in California and Dockwieler Beach was just a short bus ride away. Mom would pack us a lunch and we would grab our towels and set off for a day of sand and surf. So much fun.

My favorite summer moment was helping my granddaughter Victoria piece a king size quilt top for her bedroom. My daughter did the pressing, Victoria did the sewing and I did the cutting. It went together so fast!

Getting to travel by car from Kentucky to Washington State, down the Oregon coast to the Redwood National Forrest across California to Reno and back to Kentucky through Colorado, Kansas and Missouri. We saw so many beautiful sights. We truly live in a wonderful country.kayew54@gmail.com

My favourite summer memories are all summer long camping with my children. Their favourite days were upside down days .... Starting with supper and ending with breakfast! With sea swimming in between. Such happy days.

My favorite summer memories are Bible camp. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, it was so much fun to go to Wisconsin and go to summer camp. All of the outer door activities, the lake, the camp fires and the Bible lessons were fantastic and I loved every minute of it.

Hmmm...I have lots of great summer memories, having grown up by the beach. But some of my earliest are from when we were very little and could see the Disneyland fireworks from our front lawn. All the moms on our block had the same rule: once the fireworks were over, it was time to come in and go to bed. That practically guaranteed sweet dreams.

My favorite summer memory was when all 4 of my children can home at the same time. My kids are spread out in all four corners of the US so it very unusual for everyone to get together at the same time. Family time is to be cherished.

My favorite summer memory is staying at my grandparent's home for several weeks with my sister. Nana had an old 3 story farm house with 2 barns, lots of gardens and trees, and unlimited fabric. I started sewing at a very young age!

Oh, it was a summer vacation with my family camping in Jackson Hole, WY. We took a month traveling there and back visiting the Grand Canyon, Bryce, and Zion canyons on the way. I remember one night watching shooting stars streak across the sky.

One of my most favorite memories of summer was a family visit to Mt. Rushmore as a kid. I was in awe. Now that I am an adult, I would love to go back for a visit. Take my husband. He has never been. I tell him pictures don't do it justice. You must be standing on the patio looking up at it to feel what a beautiful monument this artist has built! It's an awesome feeling!

While it is summer here where i live we went home to escape the heatwaves. Back home since it was another country it was monsoons and we love rain. getting wet in the rain, walking in umbrellas, waddling in the stream is my favorite memory with my children.

I always loved staying at my Grandparents for the week when I was young. There was a little girl about my age who lived beside them and we did all the childhood fun things like making mud pies. My Grandparents lived in the country. We would also collect lightening bugs and she would give me one of her Anacin bottles to put them in. I also remember catching tiny frogs in the field by her house, and putting them in coke bottles.

My favorite summer memory is the family trip from Michigan to Minnesota to my grandparents' small farm. We could explore, visit the barn and animals, went fishing and swimming in the small lake and had picnics with all the relatives who came.

My grandchildren took turns visiting us for 6 weeks this summer and my favorite memory is when my husband and I, along with my oldest daughter, took them all to Silver Springs for a ride on the glass bottom boat and had a picnic afterward. I love your color choices.

My favorite summers were when I married my husband and we went to Pacific Northwest for honeymoon--a real treat from the Texas heat! Then our son was born in 1980, which hit all records for heat...but I didn't care, he was my first baby!

Seeing my grandchildren suddenly get confidence and blossom in an area. My 5 yr old has been clinging to the side of the pool in the past months, but she started clinging to the sides of the 6 ft area. Then I sent her to a week of camp in our neighborhood with other children. I went to pick her up the second day and she was standing on the end of the diving board, over the 10 foot water, and she jumped in, then swam to the ladder. My mouth dropped and didn't close. She did it again, and again. I texted her parents.....You won't believe what Elizabeth just did!! I was so proud of her. Lifeguards were nearby, yes. It's like she held this secret and then she let it out.

So sorry Zi missed your Birthday, and your drawings... I can't keep up with all the designers and their seperate pages!! It is sad... I wish their had been a special one place to see the going ins and events and drawings!! Happy 60yj Birthday Jacquelynne Steves. Thanks for all you do! Thanks for your block and free things!